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> Market dictates the price and the demand.
> *Looks inside*
> Planned allocation.
I do generally think (and agree with rightwingers) that central planning suffers from new categories appearance, if there is no vision (say, cellular phones), there is very small group of people which will deny you funding/allocation/workforce, while capital allows say 50 banks to shop around with business plan. But something silly like we need 50 million tons of steel, is easily solvable
*and obvious solution is doing fairs with new products, where planners judge interest by general public, but whatever, haven't had that in ussr for new categories
I think that phenomenon is largely historical and not intrinsic, the result of practically all socialist states being born out of (or continuously laboring under) apocalyptic war conditions or literally at the beginning state, the most dire feudal conditions on planet earth at the time
By way of comparison during wartime, particularly WWII, the production and availability of small, non-essential consumer commodities (like radios, toys, and luxury trinkets) ate absolute shit in both the US and UK
I think it’s basically production level fumble which could have been avoided if the problem was recognized as such. Like you can know about history of the radio all you like, but you have to see it implementation dialectically, not as necessity first (be it propaganda or military) but both necessity and nicety
But capital naturally moves to monopoly and 'Central planning' anyhow. The argument that things would be rubber stamped by 50 people is more accurate of capitalism, as socialism allows a bottom up approach to innovation. People with more free time, better conditions can innovate and be noticed. There are committees at multiple levels of planning as well.
yes, but evidently, ussr was fumbling semiconductors and consumer electronics for decades, despite them being not that hard to do (hard, but not that hard).
it allows, but wasn't allowed to, they may pioneer some tech, but then adopt it after western consumers proved it feasibility for mass production.
Wasn't the export of new strategic computer technology and sophisticated electronics machinery to the Soviet Union literally banned during the Cold War?
This problem is solved in a communist world if we eliminate borders by allowing people to make their case to any administration they want instead of just the administration in their home country. There can be options because there will be hundreds of different administrations optimising for the specific local conditions they have.